Thanks! I will keep that in mind.

On Sunday, April 24, 2016 at 10:43:02 PM UTC-7, Venkatraman.S. wrote:
>
> Good initiative. I tried it as well. The biggest problem I stumbled 
> on(pointed by you) was structured data as well. The dataset on NCRB is 
> still around 2014 and there is no latest info spanning the last few years.
>
> Something that I did a few years back : 
> http://indiatogether.org/gender-gap-wef-and-crimes-against-women-ncrb-women
>
> I would recommend that 
> - you do not have pre-built charts, but let the queries be dynamic which 
> would let the user choose different types of attributes and see the 
> trend(s) based on the query. Ability to cross-correlate is lost in the case 
> of pre-built biz.
> - Also, you can have a dedicated section, which highlights some of the 
> jarring patterns as observed - this section can be prebuilt.
>
> -V
> @venkasub <http://about.me/venkasub>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:50 PM, Saurabh Datar <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am a journalism student at Stanford. It's been really great being a 
>> part of this group and I've learnt a lot. I wanted to reach out to you to 
>> ask for some feedback on a project I am working on.
>>
>> I am creating an interactive website for India's crime data as my thesis 
>> project. It will basically allow people to compare crimes across different 
>> cities and types. I plan to have dedicated pages for each crime category 
>> and each city, with basic charts (line, bar) to illustrate the data. Users 
>> will also be able to download the data as CSVs. I am sure all of you know 
>> that NCRB releases the data in lovely 600-page PDFs every year :) Given the 
>> time limitations, I have scraped data for cities for the last five years 
>> and am looking to build on that.
>>
>> I hope to know more about what you would like to see as a feature -- or 
>> if there are some caveats that you'd like to point out. I would like for 
>> the project to be useful to the journalism and open data community, and 
>> would love to know your suggestions and tailor my project accordingly.
>>
>> Please feel free to ping me here or email me separately.
>>
>> PS: If anyone needs PDFs converted to Excel/CSV, hit me up. I have a 
>> subscription to CometDocs (part of the journalism program requirements) and 
>> would be happy to help out.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Saurabh
>>
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